Liquid Ventilation Improves Pulmonary Function, Gas Exchange, and Lung Injury in a Model of Respiratory Failure

Ronald B. Hirschl, Alan Parent, Richard Tooley, Michael S. McCracken, Kent J. Johnson, Thomas H. Shaffer, Marla R. Wolfson, Robert H. Bartlett

Annals of Surgery · 1995 · 159 citations · 22 references

Abstract

In a model of severe respiratory failure, LV improves pulmonary gas exchange and compliance with an associated reduction in alveolar hemorrhage, edema, and inflammatory infiltrate.

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